banks lake

[cappellini]

there is no ice at banks lake, i drove up there and looked myself..if you're desperate try moses coulee...there were a few offerings with much fenageling and/or dry tooling...bring a helmet and a drill and look for icepickles

[TimL]

Thanks Chris!

[cappellini]

did he say it really starts to run and break up????

yea thanks chris for abusing what little ice was begining to form...leave it alone till its in or we'll never see anything form

[chris_rieman]

Went up to Banks yesterday the 24th and played around on The Absent Minded Professor but you have to get up there really early or else around 10:00 or so it really starts to run and break up but it was fun to get on something that resembled ice up there. Early next week there are supposed to be lows in the single digits with highs in the upper 20's for 3 days or so, that should help!

[Yos]

Yeah chris, how dare you take a few swings at the ice before I do. Come on man, just leave the ice alone for people like cappellini and me.

[chris_rieman]

aw come on! I just did what anybody else would've done. It was great to just swing an axe. Happy climbing this next week, it should be pretty good if we get the temps. they're predicting!

[ 01-26-2002: Message edited by: chris rieman ]

[Paul_detrick]

Chris you have the wrong climb, the professer is the frist climb you come to after coulee city, in the book its marked wrong, where were you climbing right past the millon dollar mile, those are differnt climbs. just thought you might like to know. Paul

[512dude]

Any reports from the Banks Lake area?

[BigWave]

Beleive it or not the better ice is still on the west side of the Cascades. The ice out Banks just isn't in yet. But keep the beta coming so you can save me the drive.

[dan_e]

Passed through on the way to Mazama hoping to climb something, but it was barely freezing and what is there is very anemic, including the devil's shooting gallery (yes the large daggers above the still open slab are formed nicely!)

Dan E.